A Primer on Optogenetics: Introduction and Opsin Delivery
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 10, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
... have its limitations or that other technologies need to be discarded but clearly we are in an era of ...focuses primarily on behavior, you don’t necessarily need to use electrophysiology to prove that your optogenetic...required. In any given optogenetics experiment you may need to inject virus into 20 or more mice and the injections... die injection prior to using the virus. You may need to adjust coordinates based on your own method of... limited by the mouse line itself. Generation, breeding, and maintenance of a mouse line is also an expensive...terminal also affects the length of time you may need to allow the virus to express. For example, if you...surgeries and viral expression, you are ready to proceed to the material science part of optogenetics. In...